No Touching: Another Army sexual harassment officer has been arrested, this time for allegedly violating his wife's protective order.
The Horror: A mother got into a car and gave chase after neighbors witnessed her four-year-old daughter being abducted from a playground. The woman chased the alleged kidnapper for seven miles before ramming into his car. The little girl, who was reportedly pushed from the moving vehicle before the chase began, was uninjured.
The Horror II: Everybody is swimming in feces.
Partisan Jousting: "The first Congressional hearing into the Internal Revenue Serviceâs targeting of conservative groups for special scrutiny quickly turned into partisan jousting, with House Republicans pressing to expand the inquiry to other tax misdeeds closer to the White House, while Democrats tried to keep the focus narrow and under the purview of an I.R.S. chief appointed by President George W. Bush," reports the NYTimes.
Big Winner! A couple facing eviction found a $4.85 million winning lottery ticket stashed in their cookie jar.
Get Your Pregnancy Out of Our Memories: A Michigan school tried to edit the baby bumps of two pregnant students out of yearbook photos because the pregnant teens are budding proof that the school's abstinence-only policy doesn't work.
War Vets and Star Trek: How four war vets landed roles in Star Trek Into Darkness.
Crack Scandal: Someone is reportedly shopping around video that allegedly shows the conservative mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford, smoking crack. Ford, meanwhile, denies the allegations.
Why Is Crime Virtually Nonexistent in Gun-Loving Iceland? "Firstâand arguably foremostâthere is virtually no difference among upper, middle and lower classes in Iceland. And with that, tension between economic classes is non-existent, a rare occurrence for any country," Andrew Clark writes for BBC.
Remember all Those Japanese Women Forced Into Prostitution? Let's mute the scandal by calling them all Korean, a Japanese politician proposed today. His comment was made in reaction to a scandal earlier this week involving a colleague who explained that forced prostitution was a natural way to keep wartime soldiers relaxed:
"'Comfort women' is erroneously translated as 'sex slaves,' which might encourage anti-Japanese riots and conspiracies," [Japan Restoration Party member Shingo] Nishimura said Friday. "We better fight back by telling them that the words 'comfort women' and 'sex slaves' are completely different and that there are numerous South Korean prostitutes roaming around Japan."
Black Market Hash: Ben Livingston explains why the state's newly proposed pot guidelinesâwhich ban the sale of hash, hash oil, and other extractsâare ridiculous.
And finally, please enjoy this brain-melting episode of Kitchen Nightmares. Give it five minutes of your time and you will be hooked (and afterward, go read this post-show update):
